The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1887-04-16

| Patty, have bstn visiting MISS Jane lprpert
of this place, this week.
DR. j. Hare Taylor, dentist, will be a
his office in Cecilton on Friday and Satur
| day of next week.
The improvements at the barber shop o
Mr.. w. w. Burkley have been finished ant
it is now handsome place.
Mr.. Frank Price has had neat iror
fence erected in front of his residence anG
the office occupied by DIR. j. w. Cooper, Jr
Mr.. VIM d. Bratton, of Princeton col
lege, and Winter l.. Wilson, of Lehlgh
University, have been home for the Easter
holidays.
Alfred b. McVey, the present principa
of Leeds school, will open school for hall
term for one dollar, and if enough desire it
will continue longer at the sams rate.
The public schools throughout the
county closed yesterday. Many of the
day next.
Laura, daughter of Register of Wills,
Il L. lamar, was dangerously ill the early
past of this week of pneumonia, but is now
III a fair way to recover.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary So
ciety, of the NJ. L. church, held its regular
monthly meeting on Wednesday night at
the home of Mrs. +. A. Ellis.
Mr.. ii. p. Weaver, of James f. Wood
" Co., Wilmington, Del. manufacturers
of the celebrated mineral wool was N Elk
ton this week.
Miss Margaret McCauley, of New York
city, daughter of the late Daniel McCauley,
former sheriff of Cecil county, is visiting
the Misses Walmsley.
Harry Alexander was elected treasurer
of the Young Peoples Association of the
Elkton NJ. f. church at the regular weekly
meeting on Wednesday night, vice Thos
Lort, resigned.
County Treasurer Charles E. Moore on
Wednesday in honor OF his reappointment
to office entertained at dinner at the FELTON,
House, the county commissioners the clerk
and counsel to the commissioners, the
sheriff and other friends.
Mrs Brown announces in an attractive
card in this issue that she is displaying on
her counters a nice line of dress goods, hos
iery and notions, which you can buy at
reasonable prices. cash buyers have long
since found that they can save money by
purchasing at Mrs. Browns.
Mr.. John Saunders, prominent con.
tractor and builder of stonework, is very i'll
at his residence, near Liberty Grove, of
typhoid fever. He is prominently known
in Cecil, Hartford and Kent counties, hav-
ing erected large buildings and churches in
those counties.
The bu ,iness portion ofthe town of Oman
cock, Accomac county, Va, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday night. Twenty-three build
ings were burned, causing loss of fully
$4,000, with an insurance of about $40, 900
Onancock is one of the most tlourishing
towns on the Eastern Shore of Virginia
The Maryland conference Of the Meth
odist Protestant Church which had been in
session for about week at Easton, ad-
journed 90 Tuesday. Rev. w. ID. Lit
Finger was appointed to Cecil circuit. Rev,
c. S. Arnett who has been ON Cecil circuit
was appointed to First church. Il f Smith
was appointed to Rowlandvllle
AT the annual election of vestrymen
held last Monday at Trinity p f. church
Mr.. w. II. Mackall was elected to fill the
vacancy in the vestry made by the death of
Mr.. w. w. Henderson. Mr.. r. G.. Reese
was elected senior warden, which office Mr..
Henderson also held. The other officers re-
main the same as formerly.
A Cherry Hill correspondent informs
us that the Ladies' Aid Society, of the NJ
Z. church, of that place, met at the home
of Mrs. ID. c. Work, on last Wednesday
night and reorgaDize d. Aso that the board
walk committee of the same place met on
Friday night of last week and is in
tiourishng condition.
The County Commiss toner's on Tuesday
reappointtd the following officers for one
year: County treasurer, Charles E. Moore;
Jail physician, DR.. Jonn H. lamar; inspec
tor of weights and measures, Eugene K.
Pearce; bridge tender at Chesapeake City,
George w. Bouchelle; bridge tender at Bo-
hernia, Robert Shelton: road commissioner
Fourth district, Gabriel l.. Sunderling.
A son of Capt Her, of Philadelphia,
who formerly resided in Chesapeake City,
died last week in that city of pneumonia,
aged - years. His remains were brought
to Elkton on Wednesday morning last and
taken to Bethel cemetery, where they were
inferred. Rev. Asbury Burke otficiated at
the grave. Capt. Her formerly commanded
one of the Ericsson line of steamers.
The Philadelphia Press of last Sunday
contained a group of pictures comprising
the president and "nine of the most con-
spicuous merchants of the Philadelphia
commercial exchange. Among them was
the likeness of Mr.. Lincoln X. Passmore,
native of Cecil county, and son of Mr..
Ellis p Passmore, of Rising Sun. Mr..
Passmore is young man to be among the
leading men OF the exchange He went to
Philadelphia when quite young, entering
thu house of Peter Wright Il Son, with
whom he remained for several years. He
is now in business for himself. His friends
in Cecil are glad to observe this evidence OF
his success in bust ness life.
"A party of ladies' and gentlemen from
Baltimore went up to North East, Cecil
county, Md, on Easter Monday night and
gave dominoe party at the residence of
Mr.. and Mrs Charles f. Bayard, of tt at
place. The excursonists left Union Sta
ton at 40 z. NJ, and got back TO Balti
more next morning after having enjoyed a
good old Cecil county breakfast Among
those who went up were: Mrs. II. NJ.
Wigart, Mrs. Frazier Parker, Mrs. Thomas
Goodrich, Miss Alice kaborg, Messrs. II.
NJ Wigart, John ii. Heyn, 5. 5. Wallace,
John I. Hildebrandt. J. Richey Wilson,
William j. McGrhan, of Baltimore, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor, of Chester, Pa
baltimore Herald
The ladies Of Cecil county who visited
Mrs. Litzenberg's store yesterday will re-
turn today, and bring their friends, it is so
very attractive. The salesrooins are taste
fully decorated, and literally packed with
goods. Real Paris bonnets are feature of
the opening. Not imitation, you can detect
the Partisan odor as soon as you enter the
room. They are real impOrtations. Noun
tains made of Paris and English hats. New
York styles. Inc ladies of Cecil are decid-
eddy American, for the bonuets and hats
manufactured i'll the store were most ad-
mired. Spring dress goods were very much